Benjamin wilson



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

BENJAMIN WILSON, OF KEYPORT, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND ALFRED WA LLING, JR, OF SAME PLACE.

COMPOSITION FOR POLISHING METALS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent INC-265,905, dated October 10, 1882. Application filed May 27, 1882. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN WILSON, of Keyport, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Composition for Polishing Metals, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My composition consists of the followingingredients, combined in the proportions stated, viz: potters clay, fourpounds; soot from hard coal, two pounds; oxide of iron, one pound; chalk, one pound.

In preparing my improved com position I take potters clay and dry it thoroughly. I also connect with the smoke-flue of an ordinary furnace for burning hard'coal a long horizontal flue, which may be straight or bent to pass back and forth in zigzag form, and should have manholes formed in it, through which the soot deposited upon the inner surface of the said flue can be removed. If desired, the heat from the furnace can be utilized for generating steam for a steam-engine. The oxide of iron and the chalk can he bought in the market. These four ingredients are ground separately in mills to afine powder, and are then thoroughly mixed by hand or by any ordinary mixer in the pro portions stated. The composition is then ready for use or to be put up in packages for market. 

